Follow us here:

I had been thinking of how to show our students making a Chinese silk scroll. I even bought some white silk. But I had found it was to hard to calligraphy on soft silk materials without special frame tools. One day when I saw this post and this post, I said to myself “Ha, this…

I have found that children enjoy learning Chinese characters by grouping similar characters together. They use their imagination and logic to decipher their meaning. Yes, Chinese characters are quite logical. This Monday, at The Montessori Place after school Mandarin club, I shared some ideas of how to read, write and remember 9 new words and…

From last week, on top of our weekly structured Chinese lessons, we add one Chinese New Year activity and read one related story book into our lessons each week. Last week, I made 12ChineseZodiacChart十二生肖图. For our level 1 and level2 students, they wrote down the years for each animals on top of each animal pictures….

Students at Davigdor Infant School Mandarin Club have been making a great progress of learning Chinese. They love to sing along the songs from our CD album Little Dragon Mandarin Beginners Book 1 and work on the booklet. Here are just some photos to show how the kids have been enjoying their learning while working…

I have been constantly looking for better ways for children to learn Chinese characters. As I started to teach Mandarin Chinese at The Montessori Place in Hove, Brighton. I have had some meetings with the head teacher Rob recently. Inspired by the Montessori 3-part cards, I have created Little Dragon Mandarin Chinese 4-part cards. I…

I made this piece of calligraphy art yesterday to present it to my son’s dad and all the fathers out there. The drawing shows a father is carrying a child on his back with their hands holding together—-You can feel a father’s love to his…

I guess as 日 (rì) is one of the most important elements in ancient Chinese people’s life. They made lots of characters with 日 (rì). Here is another one. 日 + 十 ＝ 早 I am sure now you know 日 (rì) means sun. 日 (rì) on top of 十 , we get 早 ….

I worked hard last night to present to you my new character artwork 旦 . You should already know 日 means sun if you have been following my posts. You can see clearly, ”旦” is composed of a ”日” with a underscore “_”. From my artwork here, you can work out straightaway what the underscore…

We know this is 火 fire. Two fires combined together, one atop the other,represents the idea of “a roaring fire.” This is the original meaning of 炎. Then it was extended to mean “burn”; from “burn” it was also extended to mean “burning hot”, blazing! This is 炎. We…